I think it does. This is what it feels like in the Lakes at the moment. We are battling in heavy seas with this weather.
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[QUOTE=freckle;277469]Just listen to the shipping forecast on R4 Freckle. It is wonderful. There is a romance to all the different areas of the seas, so much so that my print Sea Fever has a layer of handwritten shipping forecast incorporated into the design. I think it is all to do with association.
and...I got overexcited there (amazing that the shipping forecast can do that)....it was a clever idea HHH and I realise that there isn't much romance to be had in a flooded houses and destroyed bridges but the metaphor of oceans works well.
[quote=Hes;277473]You are right, there is a romance to it. I always imagined sailors throughout our waters all listening to it at the same time, and having a thought for one another. (That didn't quite come out right!!!):eek:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qfvv
A Moment
The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage
you stand in the centre of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,
and say, I own this,
is the same moment when the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you,
the birds take back their language,
the cliffs fissure and collapse,
the air moves back from you like a wave
and you can't breathe.
No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you.
You never found us.
It was always the other way round.
Margaret Atwood
The Boy.
There once was a boy...
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This reminds me of a lovely book called "The world without us" which describes what would happen if us humans suddenly disappeared. It isn't quite as bleak as it sounds, and is actually quite positive in how nature finds it way back into even the most insustrial or war ravaged landscapes.